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by throwaway_e66m 1652 days ago
Wouldn't the same apply to e.g. the New York Times [1] and the Washington Post [2], etc.? I find any article with "explainer" in the title to be extremely condescending; it seems to me that no newspaper has a monopoly on dumbing down topics.

[1] From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/us-debt-ceili...:

> All of this drama raises the question of what the debt limit really is... > > What is the debt limit? > > The debt limit is a cap on the total amount of money that the federal government is authorized to borrow to fulfill its financial obligations.

[2] From https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/18/every...:

> What's a continuing resolution? > > It's a bill that tells the federal government's agencies, “Keep on spending like you've been spending till we can actually come to some agreement on how much you should be spending.”